There was some silence after Discord’s story. Nopony was quite ready to end the meeting yet, but everypony had already had their chance to speak. So, the villains turned to the mundane.
Trixie bought apple cider from Flim and Flam. Gilda snaked her tail out to trip Diamond Tiara, and laughed at the filly’s misfortune. Nightmare Moon and Chrysalis discussed mane styling tips.
All the chatter was quieted when a very familiar pink pony came bouncing into the room. Her bounces were somehow audible, as if she had literal springs in her feet. Her eyes were closed as she wore a blissful smile, as if entirely unaware of what she’d just hopped into.
She wedged herself into an empty chair between Iron Will and Rover. She then finally opened her eyes, grinned brightly, and gave a cheery, “Hi!”
She was met with silent stares.
“I have a story too!” she said. “You skipped me, because I was there before Trixie’s second episode, but that’s okay!”
“Second…what?” Trixie asked.
She pouted. “Shoot! Real Pinkie’s not that obvious about the fourth wall. Um…the second time you came back to Ponyville?”
Trixie raised an eyebrow, but Nightmare Moon took interest at this. “Real Pinkie? Who are you?”
“Oh, I’m her clone!” she said cheerily. “Real Pinkie said you needed to hear from someone who wasn’t really a villain so she pulled me back out of the mirror pool!”
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I’m from the mirror pool, which is a place just like this one except everypony’s a little different from their real pony, because they’re just reflections. I’m like Pinkie Pie because I’m always looking for fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
Oh. Sorry. Real Pinkie said I need to stop saying that because she doesn’t say that so much. I just really like fun!
So Pinkie came to the mirror pool one day when she couldn’t decide where the most fun was. She pulled me out so that I could help Applesauce with a barn raising while she went to watch Rainbow Dash do something else fun. That way, she could be there for all her friends ‘cause I was her too!
But then when I was going to Applejohn’s, I ran into Pinkie’s yellow friend. And she was having a picnic with some really cute animals. And I realized that was also fun! And I didn’t know who I was supposed to have fun with, but I didn’t want to let down Pinkie! The camera kept zooming in! It was too much!
I went to find Pinkie and told her all about the problem choosing between Applejane and Flutterby. And Pinkie’s super nice, which I know, ‘cause she’s me too, and she made me feel okay for not doing anything fun by saying that we could make more Pinkies from the mirror pool!
Making more Pinkies was fun! So when Pinkie and I duplicated ourselves, the other Pinkies and I decided to make even more! And more! No one in Ponytown was going to be able to have fun without us! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
I don’t know where all the other Pinkies went, but I went to Applesauce’s barn raising with some of them. It was so much fun! We didn’t really know what we were doing, but we all tried different things and had a lot of fun! There wasn’t really a barn, so I don’t know why they called it a barn raising, but that was okay!
Then I wandered into town to look for more fun! I found a bunch of ponies in a prank store, and pranks are always fun, so I set all the pranks I could! But then I heard Applejuice outside calling for all the Pinkies to come somewhere really really fun!
We ended up at town hall, and Twilight told us that we had to watch paint dry, or we couldn’t stay! It was boring! But I really really really wanted to stay, because it was so much fun! So I tried really hard!
It was kind of scary. Twilight kept blowing up other Pinkies but I couldn’t look away from the paint because then it would happen to me too! But it was so boringggg…
The Pinkie next to me made a silly, previous-generation face, and I couldn’t help but laugh at it! And BAM, I blew up! It kind of felt like I drank a lot of soda.
Then I was back in the mirror pool. There’s no fun in there. I’m so glad Pinkie let me out to talk to you!
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“What was the point of that, exactly?” Chrysalis asked.
“Well, Pinkie said I’m almost a villain, so I should come talk to you!” the Pinkie duplicate chirped. “Plus while I’ve been talking, real Pinkie and Twilight snuck in and were watching you!”
She pointed a hoof to the back corner of the room. Twilight had a quill and notepad frozen in midair, while Pinkie just happily waved to her duplicate. “Your Pinkie Sense didn’t get this?” Twilight whispered.
Real Pinkie shrugged. “It comes and goes. But I do sense we should leave now! Bye, other me!”
“Bye!” the Pinkie duplicate said, just as cheerily. “Thanks for letting me come out!” Before she could finish waving, she suddenly ballooned in size and popped into a stream of pink wind heading to the mirror pool.
A flash of light surrounded the two remaining Element Bearers, and they were gone.